This bug is also present in git-1.6.1.3-alt1.
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #19333 +++
If --tags is given at the end of the command line, it doesn't work:
$ git ls-remote --tags git://repo.or.cz/git.git | head
d5aef6e4d58cfe1549adef5b436f3ace984e8c86 refs/tags/gitgui-0.10.0
3d654be48f65545c4d3e35f5d3bbed5489820930 refs/tags/gitgui-0.10.0^{}
33682a5e98adfd8ba4ce0e21363c443bd273eb77 refs/tags/gitgui-0.10.1
729ffa50f75a025935623bfc58d0932c65f7de2f refs/tags/gitgui-0.10.1^{}
ca9b793bda20c7d011c96895e9407fac2df9648b refs/tags/gitgui-0.10.2
95dcfa3633004da0049d3d0fa03f80589cbcaf31 refs/tags/gitgui-0.10.2^{}
8c178f72b54f387b84388d093a920ae45b8659dd refs/tags/gitgui-0.11.0
1c1fe1005c9dacc05a34eb892ae20ebb1904a33b refs/tags/gitgui-0.11.0^{}
15c7170c8c1f6d4f8b8aa539987a92c45d06be9e refs/tags/gitgui-0.12.0
e612120d232a5ef04dcf22fc92741565ebb4d0c8 refs/tags/gitgui-0.12.0^{}
$ git ls-remote git://repo.or.cz/git.git --tags | head
$
This behavior breaks the expectations, because in other git subroutines, it's
possible to give an option at the end, for example "git push ... --tags".